LITTLE SHIP CLUB eNews May 2016

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6 May 2016 eNews Little Ship Club (Queensland Squadron)
Membership
New Member applications
April
FULL MEMBER VESSEL
Phil Clark “Cristal”
Mark Wallace “Key Largo”
David Morelli
John Patrick “Westwind II”
Paul Stanyon “Andiamo”
Brett Ballard
Andrew Weekes “The Black Pearl”
Alan Danson “Mr Mac”
The new 2016-17 membership year
is fast approaching and your Board
has been giving very careful thought
to the full range of Members’ prices
and benefits to take effect from 1st
July 2016.
There will be adjustments made
across the range to better reflect the
true cost of the services provided to
Members. More info to come with the
membership renewal notices due to
be posted out and/or emailed in the
second half of May.
Tracey Watts
Director (Membership)
The past month has been a very
busy time for your Treasurer – in fact
the club has officially become my
second home! Julie and I have been
locking ourselves away in the office
for many a day coming to grips with
the intricacies of our inventory and
point-of-sale system.
After completing a day’s training
(thanks, Geoff from H&L!) we em-
barked on an ambitious program of
cleaning up the system. Our goal
was to completely overhaul the
inventory records in time to speed
up our rather laborious and fiddly
month-end stocktake processes.
It was down to the wire but we did it!
A few more jobs to do tidying up the
till keyboard layouts and fine-tuning
our prices but the bulk of the work is
done. If anyone wants to know about
stock groups, WET taxes, factors
and PLUs, then Julie and I are the
ones to see!
With our clean inventory system,
Julie is now looking to expand our
drinks list, particularly the wine list
so look out for an improved selection
soon. Thank you to the various
Member suggestions which have
been extremely useful in the
development of new offerings.
We are also confident the system
clean up will make things run a little
more smoothly in the kitchen which
has been a particular issue when
we’ve got busy.
Our takings continue to comfortably
out-perform on the same time last
year so a big thank you to all our
Members for your continued support
of our little piece of paradise.
Tracey Watts
Director /
Mobile: 0417 892 887
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“All dressed up but unable to go” would
probably capture my hors de combat
attendance record this past month.
It’s been a particularly rough year for
my four-legged Skipper, with radiation
treatment in February successfully
bringing his hyperactive thyroid under
control, only to be followed by several
weeks of antibiotics for a bladder
infection which he picked up while in
radioactive confinement.
No sooner had this been addressed
than his right eye, which had been
steadily losing vision for the past year,
developed acute glaucoma and very
dangerous levels of over-pressure.
Emergency surgery was needed for
the complete removal of his eye, which
took me offline for the week of the April
Board meeting and the Commodore’s
at Home events and sail-past.
Barely a week later, it was my turn,
with a dry hacking cough arriving late
on the Thursday before ANZAC Day
rapidly spiralling out of control into full-
blown pnemonia; by Sunday morning
I was in ICU, on IV antiobiotics and
fluids, ECGs and chest x-rays. Greatly
relieved to report that both invalids are
now doing somewhat better.
Matt Tesch
Rear-Commodore
Rear-Commodore